BOOKLIST

Here’s a list of recent books on sound from a cultural history/theory angle.

• Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, edited by Adalaide Morris (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
• Alain Corbin, Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the 19th-Century French Countryside (Papermac, 1999)
• Bruce R. Smith, The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending the O-Factor (University of Chicago: 1999)
• Jonathan R_e, I See a Voice: Language, Deafness and the Senses-A Philosophical History (Harper Collins, 1999)
• Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press, 1999).

And not so recent:

• R. Murray Schafer, The Tuning of the World (1977)
• Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment (1982)
• Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (1992), edited by Gregory Whitehead and Douglas Kahn
• James H. Johnson, Listening in Paris (1995)
• Steven Connor, A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford, 2000)
• Leigh Schmidt, Hearing Things: The Mystic’s Ear and the Voices of Reason (Harvard, 2000)
• Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: The Architectural Acoustics and Aural Culture in America, 1900-1933 (probably MIT, 2001)
• Mark M. Smith, Aural Worlds: Listening to Sound, Noise, Section and Class in Nineteenth Century America (University of North Carolina, prob. 2001)

• For film sound see books by Michel Chion, Rick Altman, Kaja Silverman, and Elisabeth Weis/John Belton.
• For philosophy see books by Don Idhe, David Michael Levin, Michel Serres,Giorgio Agamden and Gemma Corradi-Fiumara.

Kleine bibliografie over geluid, theatraliteit, performativiteit

• Microsound – Curtis Roads: over granulaire synthese en een microscopische opvatting van geluid, erg belangrijke compositietechniek en hedendaagse soundscape, electronica en experimenteel geluidsontwerp.
• The music machine ?Curtis Roads, MIT Press : Cambridge, Mass. London, (1989): compilatie van vrij technische essays over de vroege dagen van de digitale computermuziek in academische middens, vooral via onderzoekscentra aan universiteiten.
• — nog wetenschappelijker van diezelfde auteur: Foundations of computer music; MIT Press : Cambridge, Mass. ; London, (1987).
• Noise-Water-Meat, A history of sound in the Arts. ? Douglas Kahn, (1991), MIT press : over de geschiedenis van geluid in kunst en literatuur, het ontstaan van de fonograaf, geluid bij de futuristen en John Cage.
• Wireless Imagination – Douglas Kahn and Whitehead (eds), MIT Press, (1992).
• On Sonic Art ?Trevor Wishart – Harwood academic publishers: geluidskunst.
• Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (1978) en Acoustic Communication (Westport, Connecticut: Ablex 2001) van Barry Truax; Truax is electro-akoestisch muzikant en opvolger van Raymond Murray Schafer, uitvinder van de definitie van soundscape (zie The tuning of the world: toward a theory of soundscape design, New York, Knopf (1977) van R. M. Schafer, also ok The Soundscape).
• Experimental Sound and Radio, Allen Weiss, (2001): Cultural Studies boek, niet echt praktijkgericht, louter discursief; nog zo 釪n is:
• Sound states: innovative poetics and acoustical technologies ?Adelaide Morris, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, (1997).
• Der Klang der Dinge. Akustik ?eine Aufgabe des Design – Langenmaier, Arnica-Verena (ed), Munich, Silke-Schreiber, 1993 : dit heb ik nog niet gelezen, zou interessant kunnen zijn.
• John Cage: Silence
• Luigi Russolo: The Art of Noise 1967 (oorspr. 1913); (L’arte dei Rumori) Futurist manifesto March 11 1913. R. Filliou (transl.). New York.
• Pierre Schaeffer: Trait?des objets musicaux. Essai interdisciplines. Seuil, Paris, (1966). (over de musique concr?e).

Een aantal standaardwerken over de fysieke eigenschappen van geluid en akoestiek:

• Music, sound and technology – Eargle, J.M. (ed.), (1995)
• Origins in acoustics: the science of sound from antiquity to the age of Newton – Hunt, F.V. and Newton, Isaac
• The Science of Sound ? Rossing, Thomas D. (recent)
• The science of musical sound ?John R. Pierce, (1985).
• Musical sound: an introduction to the physics of music ?Moravcsik (2002).

Soort handleiding voor geluidsontwerpers in film (niet-academisch; eigenlijk een verzameling tips en how-to-do’s voor sound designers):

• Sound design: the expressive power of music, voice, and sound effects in cinema –  David Sonnenschein (2001).
• Sound and music for the theater – Deena Kaye and James LeBrecht, Boston: Focal Press (1999).
• Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation – Ben Watson, Verso Books. (2004).

Some book recommendations from Bj?n Eriksson:

• Ocean of Sound – David Toop, Serpent’s Tail (London 1995)
• SoundArt, Swedish Contemporary Sound Artists – Teddy Hultberg, STIM/Svensk Musik, (Stockholm 2001)
• Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and Other Articles – Cornelius Cardew (1974) pdf here
• Free Culture – Lawrence Lessig, The Penguin Press (2004) pdf here

Phil Thomson’s Book List additions:

• Digital Culture – Charlie Gere. London : Reaktion, (2002)
• Uncanny Networks: Conversations with the Virtual Intelligentsia – Geert Lovink, ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, (2002).
• The Political Mapping of Cyberspace – Jeremy W. Crampton. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c2003).
• Empire – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (2000).

Some book recommendations on Sound&Music and Aesthetics by Thanos Chrysakis

• Music and the Ineffable – Vladimir Jank??itch, Princeton University Press, (Princeton 2003)
• Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music – Katharine Norman, Ashgate (Hampshire, UK 2004)
• Arts/Sciences: Alloys – Iannis Xenakis, Pedragon Press, (New York, 1985)
• Haunted Weather: Resonant Spaces, Silence & Memory – David Toop, Serpent’s Tail, (London 2004)

Some from Owen Green

• Audible Design – Trevor Wishart, Orpheus the Pantomime (York, 1994)
• Music, Electronic Media and Culture – Simon Emmerson (ed.), Ashgate (Hampshire, UK 2000)
• The Language of Electroacoustic Music – Simon Emmerson (ed.), Macmillan (London, 1986)
• File Under Popular – Chris Cutler, RER Megacorp (London 1991)
• Acoustic Communication – Barry Truax, Abex Publishing Corporation (2000)

book recommendations by Kim Cascone (sept 11 2004)

• The Moment of Complexity – Emerging Network Culture – Mark C. Taylor (U of Chicago Press 2001)

[enlightenment in all levels] recomendations by justino aka jorge bachmann (april 2005)

• _A New Kind of Science _ – Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Media Inc. 2002)